Should a GBIF taxon key change when the status changes?

18654
Reporter: mdoering
Type: Improvement
Summary: Should a GBIF taxon key change when the status changes?
Priority: Critical
Resolution: Invalid
Status: Closed
Created: 2016-07-22 15:42:30.759
Updated: 2016-07-22 16:38:44.624
Resolved: 2016-07-22 16:29:19.943
        
Description: The latest test backbone contains some new ids for names that are still exactly the same as in the last backbone. This happens because it was formerly a synonym and is now regarded as accepted in the new backbone.

I would take this as a bug and rather issue the same, previous taxon key if the name is unchanged, has the same rank and is still within the same kingdom.

Example bird Eolophus roseicapilla (248.000 occurrences linked):

NEW: 2479598; SPECIES; Eolophus roseicapilla (Vieillot, 1817); ACCEPTED
OLD:  2479601; SPECIES; Eolophus roseicapillus (Vieillot, 1817); SYNONYM  ]]>
    

Author: mdoering@gbif.org
Created: 2016-07-22 16:28:09.19
Updated: 2016-07-22 16:29:10.996
        
No, it should not and this is not what had happened.
The accepted name Eolophus roseicapilla (Vieillot, 1817) formerly had a orthographic variant synonym Eolophus roseicapillus (Vieillot, 1817) which was now removed in the new nub as we conflate those gender changes into the same taxon, see POR-2812. The synonym therefore was simply deleted